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RE: Lending, reserves, archives definitions
Chris, You could say that "lending" is possible in the digital environment if you make the case that it would be analogous to much of the current traffic in the interlibrary lending of journal articles. We refer to these as interlibrary *loans* when in fact the bulk of that traffic consists of sending copies of journal articles via fax, mail, etc., with no expectation that they will be returned. If you accept this, then it would be possible to "lend" something in the digital environment to a library that, for one reason or another, could not directly access that digital document. I guess you could either make the case that "lending" along these lines is possible in the digital environment, or make the case that most of the current ILL traffic in journal articles is not really "lending". ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-4895 Fax: 217-333-6355 e-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu >---------- >From: chris.zielinski@alcs.co.uk[SMTP:chris.zielinski@alcs.co.uk] >Sent: Friday, July 11, 1997 6:42 AM >To: liblicense-l@pantheon.yale.edu >Subject: Lending, reserves, archives definitions > >Just a few general questions relating to basic definitions: > >-What is "lending" in a digital environment? Does the concept mean anything >online? Note that, if you are making a copy, you are not lending. >Personally, I doubt that you can "lend" anything online - but I'm willing to >be persuaded otherwise. > >-What about definitions for: > >---electronic reserves (relates to lending: again, I suspect that there can >be no such thing as "electronic reserves", in the strict sense) >---electronic archives >---electronic backup (Is there any difference between the two?) > >The questions may seem innocuous at first glance, but they have important >ramifications. > > >CHRIS ZIELINSKI, Secretary General, ALCS >74 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1EF, United Kingdom >Tel: (0044)-(0)171 255 2034 - Fax: (0044)-(0)171 323 0486
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